This paper, using daily returns on 30 Dow Jones Industrial stocks for the period 1991-1999, investigates the possibility of portfolio diversification when there are negative large movements in the stock returns (i.e. when the market is bearish). We estimate the quantiles of stock return...

The main objective of this study is to investigate the rebustness of the popular Durbin-Watson (DW), Langrage multiplier (LM), Box-Pierce (BP) and Ljung-Box (LB) tests and their corrected versions against autoregressive distrurbances in the presence of dynamic heteroscedastic disturbances with...